A T2V-1 Seastar assigned to the Flight Test Division of Naval Air Test Center (NATC) Patuxent River, Maryland on approach to the carrier Antietam (CVS 36) during carrier suitability trials in July 1957, fifty-six years ago this month.
A P-3C Orion of Patrol Squadron (VP) 10 launches a Harpoon missile while a TA-4J Skyhawk flies chase during a 1996 training mission. (U.S. Navy Photograph by PHAN Michael J. Rinaldi)
A P-3 Orion Patrol Squadron (VP) 10 pictured on the ground during operations in Southwest Asia during 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Robert Barney)
A Harpoon AGM-84D Block IC missile, which was released from a P-8A Poseidon (not visible), directly hits a Low Cost Modular Target (LCMT)at the Point Mugu Sea Test Range in California June 24. Bottom photo: A LCMT at the Point Mugu Sea Test Range is shown after the Harpoon successfully strikes it. (U.S. Navy photos) http://www.navair.navy.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.NAVAIRNewsStory&id=5411
View of a WV-2 Warning Star in flight during the 1950s.
This a view inside the cockpit of a WC-121 Warning Star of Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (VW) 4 in flight with Lieutenant Commander Gerald W. Dorn and Lieutenant (junior grade) Joseph A. Berthon at the controls during a a 1965 mission
AT2 Don Atchinson at his duty station on board a WC-121 Warning Star of Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (VW) 4 while on a mission in 1965.
An RA-5C Vigilante of Reconnaissance Attack Squadron (RVAH) 14 pictured ready for launch from the carrier John F. Kennedy (CVA 67) underway in the Mediterranean Sea in 1972.
T-2C Buckeyes of Training Squadron (VT) 23 lined up at Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville, Texas, prior to launching on training flights on July 14, 1982, thirty-one years ago today.
A T-28B Trojan of Training Squadron (VT) 27 pictured on approach for landing at Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi, Texas, on July 16, 1982, thirty-one years ago today.